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O. W. DENNIS.

WASH BOILER FOUNTAIN.

No. 359,010. Patented'Mar. 8, 1881 qaz'zw, V BY ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES IV. DENNIS, OF TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

WASH-BOILER FOUNTAIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 359,010 dated March 8, 1887.

No model.)

To (ZZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES WV. DENNIS, of Toronto, in the Province of Ontario, Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Wash-Boiler Fountains, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the annexed drawings, forming apart thereof, in which Figure 1 is an inverted perspective view ofmy improved wash-boiler fountain. Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the position of the wash-boiler fountain in the wash-boiler.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both figures of the drawlugs.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and convenient device to be applied to an ordinary wash-boiler, for creating a circir lation of the water through the clothes contained by the boiler.

My invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

The hollow drum Ais provided with a series of internal radial partitions, a, which extend from the inner surface of the wall of the drum toward the central aperture, 0. Between each pair of radial partitions a a hole, 0, is formed in the wall ofthe drum A, and the chambers d between the pairs of partitions communicate with the central aperture, 2).

Around the aperture Z), upon the upper sur face of the drum A, there is a collar (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2) for receiving, the discharge-pipe B. The drum A is placed, open side downward, in the boiler C, as shown in Fig. 2, and the discharge-pipe B curves over toward the center of the boiler.

In use the water contained beneath the drum and between the walls and top of the drum and bottom of the boiler is heated-sufficiently to cause it to boil, and the steam carries the water upward through the pipe B; while cool water enters the drum A through the holes c,and is heated and carried upward in the pipe B. In this manner acircnlation is continuously maintained, the water entering below becoming heated and rising, and then,as it becomes cool, falling, passing on its way downward through the clot-hes contained by the boiler.

The steam is generated principally in the chambers d, in which the circulation of water is not strong, while the body of water employed in cleansing the clothes flows continuously through the openings 0 and between the pairs of partitions a,and is carried upward by the steam generated in the chambers (1.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A wash-boiler fountain formed of the hollow drum A, having openings 0 in its walls, the radial partitions a, extending from the walls toward the center of the drum, and forming passages open at both ends for the flow of water, and chambers 66, open at their converging ends'only, for the generation of steam, substantially as herein shown and described.

CHARLES IV. DENNIS.

\Vitnesses:

M. M. RENNER, W. \VATKINS. 

